{"id":8447,"date":"2024-07-14T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:06:18","slug":"country-number-ten-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=8447","title":{"rendered":"Forever Wild – Finding Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since arriving in Asia last August, we have been to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Malaysia is the tenth country on our Asia tour. We rejoined our traveling family — Forever Wild — in Penang, Malaysia.<\/p>\n

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Lucas and Henry joined their friends for another fun month in our Forever Wild community at the Tropical Spice Garden (https:\/\/tropicalspicegarden.com\/). The Tropical Spice Garden is a magical, bio-diverse museum of spices and other tropical plants from around the world. Community is a big focus of our travels and finding traveling communities like Forever Wild is important to us.<\/p>\n

We first joined the Forever Wild community in Krabi, Thailand and we just finished in Penang. We are continuing with Forever Wild in Kuala Lumpur and Bali. Before we arrived in Krabi, we had not met Amanda and Solomon, creators of Forever Wild, in person. We went off their track record running a program in the Dominican Republic and our interview with them before signing up. We are enjoying the community Forever Wild has created. Lucas and Henry are growing by leaps and bounds and learning new skills like break-dancing and playing the guitar. Solomon and Amanda Dixon are passionate and caring individuals who have spent years working with children.\u00a0 We are so happy that we chose to go on this Forever Wild journey with them.<\/p>\n

Lucas and Henry go to an enrichment program four days a week with kids of all ages. They tackle writing, music, movement, and other activities. One of the days was a jungle survival class where parents and kids learned how to filter water, make shelter, and build a fire. Science, language, and history are woven into activities and incorporated into the community trips.<\/p>\n